Thursday, August 20, 2009

July Council meeting is available online

You can see the July Council meeting here.

Tim White

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Regarding the early retirement given to town employees Tim. It was indicated that the savings would be reached through attrition of these positions (not refilling postions). Is it true that a few of these positions have been refilled, and that one of the "retired" employees has been brought back as a "temp". If this is the case then the town should have offered this package to all town unions, removing higher pay scale employees replacing with entry level employees. There would have been realized savings for several years while they worked through the steps. Can you also determine why the Town believes that employees in steps actually costs the town money as opposed to saving the Town the difference in salary while the employee "gets up to speed". Zullo has mentioned this several times, the logic dosent make sense

Tim White said...

Is it true that a few of these positions have been refilled

I understood that certain positions were to be refilled after some time... that is, the positions were not to be eliminated... just unfilled for some time. Each position was different.

one of the "retired" employees has been brought back as a "temp".

I understood that one ee was going to be working past the June 30 retirement date... tax collector, maybe? I think it was a cyclical job and I'm sure that office is busier in July and August than in Sept to Dec.

then the town should have offered this package to all town unions

I don't follow, unless you mean the PD. I could elaborate on my views there.

"There would have been realized savings for several years while they worked through the steps.

The operating budget would have savings, but IMO that savings must be balanced against the increased payments from the pension fund. I'd want to see those numbers before I say there'd be a net savings.

Can you also determine why the Town believes that employees in steps actually costs the town money as opposed to saving the Town the difference in salary while the employee "gets up to speed".

Can you explain this a bit more? I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. And I don't mean that it's illogical. It just doesn't make sense to me.